Matt Taibbi, Coiner of 'Vampire Squid,' Is Tired of Its Ubiquity

Matt Taibbi, who used the phrase "vampire squid" when referring to Goldman Sachs in a 2009 Rolling Stone article, was not proud of his creation in an interview with Dealbook's Kevin Roose. "I’m getting a little worried that I’m going to have a squid on my gravestone," he said. "It’s clearly getting a little old, but it seems to not go away."

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.